Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.